Just started folding, making sure everything is working right..

Pabl0

Pabl0

Pabl0

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Hi guys,

I've got a 3750k @4.5 and a 7970. It all water cooled so temps aren't a problem. I'm using the windows v7 client and I have seen there are two projects or whatever they are called folding atm.

Is that everything i need to do, I've got my user Id and set it up for team 10. The gpu in after burner is at 50% and the cpu is at 100% and using all four cores.

It seems to be taking an age and front running from last night till this morning got about 50% of the way through on each and earnt ~13000 points..(I think, ppd seems to fluctuate around this)

Any tips etc?
 
Yeah, I was thinking it might not be worth using the 7970 as it's seems pretty crap for folding and is taking an age to do anything where as the cpu is much quicker and earns more points.

I'm around 16000ppd with the both but will sack off the 7970, plus it's coil whine is the only noticeable thing in my room with the PC on and folding.
 
ManLoveRulesOK said:
Stop folding on the 7970 and fold CPU only, ATI cards are notoriously poor for folding performance and will kill the PPD of you CPU client.
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Only stop folding with your gpu if you have an nvidia card to fold with. My 5770 is getting me an extra 1500 points over just my 1090T. Or is this just an intel thing?
 
Ripshod said:
Only stop folding with your gpu if you have an nvidia card to fold with. My 5770 is getting me an extra 1500 points over just my 1090T. Or is this just an intel thing?
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With my 3750k and my 7970 i'll get 13-16,000 PPD, with just the 3750k i'll get 20,000PPD..

Don't really want to be getting a nvidia card aswell as having the 7970..would there not be driver conflicts?
 
You'd replace the ATI card with the nvidia one, not run them alongside each other. Only you can decide if that is worth the expense. It may be possible for you to sell the ATI card.

As for the PPD prediction, every GPU does use part of a CPU core as well. So running your GPU will reduce your CPU's output from it's normal work. For SMP units this does slow things generally as one would normally want all the CPU cores working at a similar pace. One would hope that the added GPU compensates and exceeds the lost CPU output, but that isn't always the case.
 
I started folding a few weeks ago now and had problems with a Nvidia card failing all the time, I appear to have fixed this now but every time it gets a new WU all the points are "unknown".

It appears this can be caused by a database issue but all my other machines are running fine, any idea's what is causing this?
 
Thing is I game, the 7970 is great for this and I run two monitors one @ 1440p and one @ 1080p so I'd need the best nvidia card plus my 7970 is in my water cooled loop so I'd be looking at £500 to go nvdia minus the sale of the 7970..

Just don't think it's worth it, I mean I might make an extra few points a day but I'd rather upgrade to a 3770k surely I'd see a better improvement on that compared with a gpu..

Or maybe I should swap to a 2700k if one came up cheap enough, overclocks well and has hyper threading..
 
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